James Gunn Lifts the Lid on DC’s Creature Commandos

DC Comics fans got a teaser for Creature Commandos astatine July’s San Diego Comic-Con; now, we cognize precisely erstwhile the animated bid that volition decently footwear disconnected James Gunn‘s DC reign volition arrive: Thursday, December 5. After the premiere, you tin ticker a caller introduction each week connected Max done January 16, for a full of 7 episodes.

A property merchandise with the day announcement—accompanied by the fiery caller photograph you spot here—reiterated the authoritative logline: “Creature Commandos tracks a concealed squad of incarcerated monsters recruited for missions deemed excessively unsafe for humans. When each other fails… they’re your last, worst option.”

It besides ran down the stacked cast: Steve Agee arsenic Economos, Maria Bakalova arsenic Princess Ilana, Anya Chalotra arsenic Circe, Zoe Chao arsenic Nina Mazursky, Frank Grillo arsenic Rick Flag Sr., Sean Gunn arsenic GI Robot & Weasel, David Harbour arsenic Frankenstein, Alan Tudyk arsenic Dr. Phosphorus, Indira Varma arsenic the Bride, and Viola Davis arsenic Amanda Waller.

The amusement is written by Gunn, who’s besides 1 of its enforcement producers—as good arsenic 1 of the guys (along with Peter Safran) overseeing this brand-new section for DC. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, helium shared his excitement astir the amusement arsenic good arsenic DC’s future. He has his ain live-action Superman movie arriving adjacent summer, of course, which helium describes arsenic a “humongous epic.” Creature Commados, by contrast, is much of “a mode for radical to conscionable instrumentality a small nibble [of the caller DC universe] and spot what it tastes like.”

In the interview, helium likened Creature Commandos to his Marvel trilogy of Guardians of the Galaxy films; conscionable from that authoritative logline you tin spot the similarities, and Gunn agrees he’s a instrumentality of “oddballs and irregular types and weirdos.” (Also not dissimilar his Suicide Squad movie characters, travel to deliberation of it.) However, there’s a cardinal difference, too: “The Guardians are each truly bully characters astatine their heart, and that conscionable isn’t needfully the lawsuit with the creatures.”

Head to EW to work much from Gunn, including however his show’s instrumentality connected Frankenstein and the Bride volition beryllium a spot antithetic than what fearfulness fans are utilized to from the classical characters; helium besides teases however Creature Commandos will connection “bunch of hints for things that are coming [in the DC universe] … I deliberation it’s conscionable an extraordinarily amusive mode to start.”

Creature Commandos kicks disconnected December 5 connected Max.

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